now, feiler has a new book. eneration freedom."st might surprise you. >> the reason i called this book "generation freedom" is because you have two-thirds of the muslim world is under 30 years old. that's a billion people in the world. consider the simple fact that 1 in 7 human beings todod is a muslim under 30. we have to get this right. >> reporter: by one estimate, the middle east will need to generate 200 million jobs by 2020. so, by sheer numbers, muslims are set to play a bigger role in world affairs than ever before. will it be hopeful or violent and chaotic? "generation freedom." that's very optimistic, people might say. >> i think what's happening is, you've got this huge population that wants a better world. for 30 years, the chief narrative of change that they've been presented has been the fundamental. come with us, we're going to take you back to the 12th century, we're going to take you deep into islam, traditional islam and by the way, we're going to bomb and kill people who disagrgr with us. what the arab spring has

and late feiler.arents named them eden and tybee. eden for the bible's perfect garden which bruce was looking for when he learned linda was pregnant. >> i love you. >> reporter: and tybee for the coastal island where bruce and linda were engaged. the girls were named to be adventurers like their father and his plan was to be there every step of the way. you girls like walking to school like this with daddy? you do this every morning? >> yes. >> every day i'm actually astounded by their relationship. >> reporter: but again, it was that day in 2008 that jeopardized everything about the future he'd imagined. bone cancer. a rare form of cancer. more specifically, osteosarcoma. usually strikes people much younger than bruce. everyone was scared. >> my first thought was he's going to die. >> there's never a moment that is not shadowed in some way by that phone call. that cancer illness, the idea of dying, is never that far away. >> reporter: just days after the diagnosis, cape cod. bruce was consumed by a s

best-selling author bruce feiler says he's hopeful these youth revolutions will result in positive changeoke with him earlier. >> i'm really excited by your book because it's looking at the events that are happening right now in the middle east. and every night almost we're covering what's happening in syria and throughout the region. it's very easy to be pessimistic about the future what's happening there. but in your writing you're optimistic about it. you see hope. >> well, you and i have sat at this table. you've been kind enough to invite me a number of time in recent years to talk about this large question of can we get along. which is are we in a holy war between the west and islam? >> right. >> and in almost every one of these conversations somebody will say, where's the voice of the moderates? what are they doing? we're doing all this thing. and this suddenly seemed to me like an enormous event in that conversation we've all been having since 9/11. the reason i called my book "generation of freedom" is that these young people are really at the heart of the conversation. two-third

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